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Mozilla logs over 8,000,000 Fx downloads in a day

After a rocky start to its Firefox 3 "Download Day," Mozilla logged more than 8 million downloads of the latest version of its Web browser in 24 hours, the company said Wednesday.

Firefox 3 was downloaded 8,349,074 times between 2:16 p.m. EST Tuesday and 2:16 p.m. EST Wednesday -- more Firefox downloads than the company has ever had in one day, according to a Mozilla Web site tracking the browser's first-day download process.

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n a blog posting, Mozilla CEO John Lily said Firefox's browser market share grew to about 4 percent worldwide after Download Day, citing a link to statistics collected and maintained by Web statistics and analytics company Net Applications.

People in about 200 countries downloaded Firefox 3, with the United States leading the pack for number of downloads. The other countries in the top 10 for Firefox 3 downloads were, in order, Germany, Japan, Spain, the United Kingdom, France, Iran, Italy, Canada, and Poland.

He added that Firefox users hosted 757 parties around the world to celebrate Download Day.
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Re: Mozilla logs over 8,000,000 Fx downloads in a day

I don't know what people think will happen because of a new browser release, just more broken updates (doesn't matter what browser either, there will be bugs).

There's already a beta 2?!?!

Just a week or so ago i tried beta 1 to see what we had to look forward to in IE. Not surprisingly, about the only page it could display right was about:blank. Hopefully they fixed a few things in beta 2.

Re: Mozilla logs over 8,000,000 Fx downloads in a day

Posted 01 July 2008 - 11:35 AM

What I always find more interesting than the pure number of downloads in one day is where those downloads come from. On spread firefox they have a map (linked below) that shows where downloads came from. Like almost 5,000 downloads from the remote island of Mauritius (just off the coast of madagascar) and over 1000 in Fiji? I have been to fiji and they can't even afford food let alone internet access let alone download firefox.